The Empire Religion?

About a year ago I read an article that argued one of the major overlooked reasons why Europe was able to colonize the world instead of India was religion. Christianity demands glorious feats so it was more natural for Europeans to fight, conquer, and colonize. Meanwhile, Hinduism focuses on people minding their own station in life and not forming massive armies to campaign in foreign lands. Do you think that this argument is correct? Could a more militaristic religion have made India more capable of competing with Europe?
 
That's an interesting argument but I think it oversimplifies the problem a bit too much. While Christiannity is indeed a missionary faith that will always try to bolster its numbers, there is nothing in the sacred texts that actually calls for military expansion. I also don't see how it demands glorious feats more than any other religion on the planet: acting for the glory of (the) God(s) isn't really something that I see particularly limited to Christiannity. Last but not least, Christiannity didn't expand only through military conquests: there were also people that willingly converted. In fact, a good deal of Europe was converted this way after Kings adopted Christiannity. The same way, I don't really see anything in Hinduism that could prevent military expansion: as a matter of fact, there were several empires and kindgoms that rose and expanded in India, which means warfare was certainly not absent.

The only thing I could give this argument is that Hinduism is more of a local religion (I don't think there are many Hindus outside of India) while Christiannity is more prone to proselytism: because of this, Christians are more likely to seek to expand their religion and bring in new converts peacefully or violently than Hindus are. But I think it's only one small factor in a myriad of others. There probably were ways for India to dominate the world while keeping Hinduism as the main religion and there probably were others factors than Christiannity that played a part in Europe's domination over the world.
 
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